The Earth And Its Peoples
Subtitle: A Global History
Edition: 3rd ed., Advanced Placement ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: April 13, 2004
Place of publication: Boston; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 905
ISBN-13: 9780618427703
Copyright date: 2005
Table of contents: title: Part one : The emergence of human communities, to 500 BCE.; title: From the origins of agriculture to the first river-valley civilizations, 8000-1500 BCE; title: New civilizations in the eastern and western hemispheres, 2200-250 BCE; title: The Mediterranean and Middle East, 2000-500 BCE; title: Part two : The formation of new cultural communities, 1000 BCE-600 CE.; title: Greece and Iran, 1000-30 BCE; title: An age of empires : Rome and Han China, 753 BCE-600 CE; title: India and Southeast Asia, 1500 BCE-600 CE; title: Networks of communication and exchange, 300 BCE-600 CE; title: Part three : Competition among cultural communities, 600-1200.; title: The rise of Islam, 600-1200; title: Christian Europe emerges, 600-1200; title: Inner and East Asia, 600-1200; title: Peoples and civilizations of the Americas, 600-1500; title: Part four : Interregional patterns of culture and contact, 1200-1550.; title: Mongol Eurasia and its aftermath, 1200-1500; title: Tropical Africa and Asia, 1200-1500; title: The Latin West, 1200-1500; title: The maritime revolution, to 1550; title: Part five : The globe encompassed, 1500-1750.; title: Transformations in Europe, 1500-1750; title: The diversity of American colonial societies, 1530-1770; title: The Atlantic system and Africa, 1550-1800; title: Southwest Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1750; title: Northern Eurasia, 1500-1800; title: Part six : Revolutions reshape the world, 1750-1870.; title: Revolutionary changes in the Atlantic world, 1750-1850; title: The early Industrial Revolution, 1760-1851; title: Nation building and economic transformation in the Americas, 1800-1890; title: Africa, India, and the new British Empire, 1750-1870; title: Land empires in the age of imperialism, 1800-1870; title: Part seven : Global diversity and dominance, 1850-1945.; title: The new power balance, 1850-1900; title: The new imperialism, 1869-1914; title: The crisis of the imperial order, 1900-1929; title: The collapse of the old order, 1929-1949; title: Striving for independence : Africa, India, and Latin America, 1900-1949; title: Part eight : Perils and promises of a global community, 1945 to the present.; title: The Cold War and decolonization, 1945-1975; title: Crisis, realignment, and the dawn of the post-Cold War world, 1975-1991; title: Globalization at the turn of the millennium